Julia Child would have turned 100 years old on Aug. 15. In tribute to her culinary legacy, top Valley chefs are joining in a national celebration and participating in Julia Child Restaurant Week, Aug. 7-15.

John Updike's final work, a poetry collection will be published next month. Meanwhile, The Yankee Years lands on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. 5, while James Patterson's Run for Your Life enters the list at No. 8.

President Bush returned Sunday to the scene of one of the most stirring speeches of his presidency and this time said not one public word. Visiting Ground Zero to mark the five years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bush placed two wreaths in honor of the more than 2,700 people who perished when hijackers crashed airliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

Chefs and food critics are serving up a veritable feast of words this spring. A groaning sideboard of memoirs is being published, beginning with My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme (Knopf, $25.95), on sale today.